Chapter 9: The Verdict — Theorem, Tools, Remainder¶

[PLANNED] This chapter has not yet been written; what follows is a skeleton. Items may be added or removed, and the order may change.

Three movements, then the handover.

• Movement one, acceptance of the theorem: the full premise audit (every premise typed as definition, logic, or analytic truth — no scriptural authority on the list), and the exit actually reached, declared as it stands.
• Movement two, handover of the tool: the open cases of Parts 15 through 17 settled one by one — the really-existing dharmas across the three times, possession and unmanifest matter, vital force and group-homogeneity, atoms, the person, nirvāṇa as entity.
• Movement three, inventory of the remainder: what the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā is once theorem and tool are extracted — the path, the practical aim, the positive teaching of dependent origination; against Westerhoff's concluding chapter.
• The handover: in India this proof was read into two schools, in China it met the two truths — the next part opens there.